The Lessons Appointed for Use on All Saints’ Day Year A RCL Christ Catholic Church Province of the Prince of Peace Revelation 7:9-17Psalm 34:1-10, 221 John 3:1-3Matthew 5:1-12 The Collect Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son…
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Christ Catholic Church: There is a Place at the Table for You
Christ Catholic Church: There is a Place at the Table for You An Invitation to Explore a Sacramental Christian Life Jesus Cares ✛ Christ is the Center ✛ The Gospel is the Way Perhaps you’ve found your way here because you’re looking for something. Maybe you’re looking for a church….
Pastoral Reflections
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Beyond Independence: Toward an Autocephalous Sacramental Movement
Beyond Independence: Toward an Autocephalous Sacramental Movement By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Words matter. They shape more than the sentences we speak; they shape the way we understand ourselves. They create categories in our minds, establish assumptions before a conversation even begins, and sometimes quietly determine which questions…
Church History
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The Kindling of Free Catholicism: An Ancient Fire Carried from Hearth to Hearth
By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Before Free Catholicism Had a Name: Celtic Christianity, Saint Willibrord, and Utrecht I offer the following as a historical and theological hypothesis rather than as a claim that can be proven in every detail: the catholic churches of the Celtic lands prior to the Synod…
Pastoral Reflections
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Unity Without Uniformity
Unity Without Uniformity By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, CWC After nearly thirty years in the Autocephalous Sacramental Movement, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the question of Christian unity. For many years, I measured unity largely by visible organization: fewer jurisdictions, fewer divisions, fewer independent…
Bound on the Altar and Freed by Grace
Sunday Closest to June 29Proper 8Year ARCL Genesis 22:1-14Psalm 13Romans 6:12-23Matthew 10:40-42 Bound on the Altar and Freed by Grace By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC We spend an enormous amount of our lives trying to calculate the cost of our commitments. We look at our careers, our marriages, our finances,…
Found in the Desert and Free from the Tomb
Sunday Closest to June 22Proper 7Year ARCL Genesis 21:8-21Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17Romans 6:1b-11Matthew 10:24-39 Found in the Desert and Free from the Tomb By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Every single one of us has a deep, underlying fear of being completely cast out. We fear being excluded from our social circles,…
The Power of Impossible Hope
Sunday closest to June 15Proper 6Year ARCL Genesis 18:1-15, (21:1-7)Psalm 116:1, 10-17Romans 5:1-8Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23) The Power of Impossible Hope By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC We have all had moments where we looked at our lives or the world around us and decided that certain things were just completely impossible. We…
Caught Up in the Divine Dance
First Sunday after Pentecost:Trinity SundayYear ARCL Caught Up in the Divine Dance By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Every single one of us has looked up at the night sky at some point in our lives, away from the city lights, and felt completely small. You look at the vast expanse…
The Wild Breath of a New Beginning
Day of PentecostWhitsundayYear ARCL The Wild Breath of a New Beginning By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC We spend an enormous amount of our daily lives trying to keep things under control. We lock our doors to stay safe, we build walls to protect our preferences, and we categorize people into…